When I painted my nails with Monroe -which I talked about here– I decided to try a new -by new, I mean new to me- nail art technique: reverse stamping. I know that the shades I went for unfortunately make this nail art barely visible. I have to admit that I did not really think about that before going ahead with my nail art. I wanted to use these polishes and I realized afterwards that although each polish on its own is a stunner, using them over a polish as dark as Monroe made this nail art significantly discreet 😀

For those of you who never heard of reverse stamping, it consists in stamping a design and filling it in later on, either directly on the stamp or on a nail art mat, and then stamping it back on the nail.

You will see all the products I used to achieve this nail art on the following picture 🙂

*natural light*

*artificial light*

The products I used

Monroe, Black & Cactus – Picture Polish

Velvetine – Cirque Colors

Sleeping Palace – A England

Stamping Plate The Pro 12 – MoYou London

Step by step

I opted for the second way to proceed out of the two I mentioned earlier.

So I stamped -with the Clear Stamper by MoYou- the flower design I made with Black. I stamped it on my nail art mat and I filled in the design directly from the mat. To do so, I used Cactus, Velvetine et Sleeping Palace. I waited until everything was completely dry. If you do not, it will get all goopy and streaky and hence ruin your design. Not cool!

Then I applied a regular -that is important- top coat by Essie over my design and let it all dry down again.

When my design turned out to be perfectly dry, I applied a coat of top coat on my nail, I took the design with a pair of tweezers and pressed it onto my nail. I pressed it with a clean nail art brush.

Next step : cutting the excess of the patch with some scissors. I finished off cleaning the edges with a clean brush dipped into nail polish remover and my design was all set!

I let it all dry again and applied some fast-drying top coat.

Let me know if you like this design in the comment section down below 🙂